Yahoo co-founder defends cooperation with Chinese censorship of the web


	Yahoo co-founder defends cooperation with Chinese censorship of the web

adamc

4-2-2006 4:22 PM

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great firewall of china, yahoo, china, web, censorship, jerry yang, search

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4-2-2006 4:33 PM

invictus

China is not Yahoo's only "dark record". They did the the same in Australia. I clipped this yesterday:

http://clipmarks.com/clipmark/C8808D61-9D6D-4B22-BD7C-D302F733A02A/

4-2-2006 4:56 PM

adamc

Interesting. I can tell you that "apology" is a taboo subject in Australian politics -- indigenous groups have been calling on Howard and previous governments to apologize for the white man's treatment of the aboriginal community for years.

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